Project description
This multidisciplinary research (legal, ethical and technological) proposes to carry out a critical analysis of European AI regulation, with special emphasis on the impact of its deployment on fundamental rights.
The relevance of this study lies in its ability to explore and study real use cases both at Adevinta (a leading European company in online markets) and at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
The interaction between disruptive technology applied in state-of-the-art products, leading technical knowledge generated in one of the most avant-garde research centers in computational sciences and AI in Europe, and the training and in-depth knowledge of the most current regulation from one of the most prestigious universities in Spain, reflect a necessary, crucial and highly interesting proposal to generate answers to contemporary unknowns and concerns.
Where the acceleration of the implementation of AI systems in our daily lives in general and, in high-risk sectors, in particular, requires a careful and rigorous analysis of the legal mechanisms that will protect fundamental rights, as well as the ethical principles that will establish the bases of when it should be used and under what criteria and when not.
Given the global expansion of AI and its potential impact on fundamental rights, this study becomes essential to understand and guide current and future regulations, both at European and international level. The synergies between academia, research center and industry will provide this research with a broad and exhaustive perspective on the needs and limitations that contemporary technological reality poses for legislation, as well as its successes and strengths. Likewise, this pioneering research will analyze the effectiveness and applicability of the legal tools and mechanisms that citizens have at their disposal to assert their rights in digital environments, against automated decisions, profiling and AI systems.
We believe that the knowledge generated within the framework of this research could allow us to make precise, solidly motivated and evidence-based recommendations that bring great value to society, the legislator, the authorities, and the different actors in the AI ​​value chain as a whole. To achieve this objective, the study of the radiant legal institution: assessment of the impact of fundamental rights (art. 27 AI Regulation), as well as its practical application and functionality in the real world, will be of particular interest.
